Most Read This Week In Library Science

Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Library Science"

Cher connard
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
The Last Sane Woman
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Wickedest
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
The Library: A Fragile History
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing

S.E. Harmon
In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.
S.E. Harmon, Stay with Me

Marilyn Johnson
A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future. ...more
Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

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